"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.
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Moon/mountain?
Submitted by ebfaulkner6a on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 4:59pm.
This image was taken when I first started imaging thru my 10" Meade LX200 about 7 years ago. That was when I would try anything (and most of the time it was experimental) to get an image. Joe Marzullo will back me up. I usually try the "impossible" or "not likely to work" trial and error routine when it comes to imaging. For example: to take this image of a mountain inside a crater along the terminator of a 3 day new Moon,I added a tele-extender with an eyepiece placed inside, add this to my Pentax K1000 35mm camera, place this setup into
